That's the thing, fame and fortune is fleeting. Do you really think people are happy on "Where Are They Now"? No! They are washed up or narcissistic and even then their music was usually piss poor to begin with, but had just the right formula to appeal to the mass of drones that will buy/listen to it.
I'm not saying nonconformist music is the way to go, but do you really thing the RIAA really cares if I download NOFX, Pedro the Lion, or Minus the Bear? They aren't famous, but they are more enjoyable, interesting, and better than your standard rehashed major label bullshit.
Mod me flamebait or troll or whatever, but the music industry is a bunch of fucks, I've been there, signed the contract, had the CD's in Best Buy, etc. and when it was their turn to pay royalties, reimbursements, they fucking folded and took that debt with them. Now I'm 30 grand in debt. I should have recorded my own album and sold it out the back of my car. i could have bought a 6 pack and still been ahead $2.63.
There are many cut scenes in FF XII, but honestly, it might be 1/100th of the game. The cut scenes are completely story related and although some are lengthy, it's not as bad as you all seem to make it. I would say they have conveyed more game than other RPG's with this installment. It's been probably the best gaming experience of my life thus far. 2nd being Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
"You, as a Christian, by definition are claiming that what you preach *has* to be followed and that excessive punishment results from not following the crux of what you preach."
Actually, the teachings of Jesus follow the "Love the sinner, hate the sin" mantra and excessive punishment does not follow doing wrong. In fact, according to Christian values, doing good can land you in hell just as easily. John 3:3 explains the only prerequisite to finding yourself in heaven after you die on Earth.
So, no I don't hate homosexuals, however, homosexuality is a sin according to my beliefs. So is cursing in frustration, and there is no difference between the two. Sin is sin according to the bible. But no one deserves to be vilified for any of it, and that (as you alluded to) is the major breakdown of the church. What I stated before ties into that. The issue is that people in the church have some major sin eating at their lives, and the human response to that is to point elsewhere to make sure it is never uncovered. That only leads to more and more hate-mongering in the name of Jesus.
Too many religious figureheads lose their way due to the attention diverting from Jesus to them. If you have read the news stories about "Jesus Camp" that had a section on Ted H.'s church, they were taken aback at how much weight on Ted himself the church members had invested.
There is a good book by a man named Brennen Manning entitled "The Ragamuffin Gospel". He was an evangelist who became a severe alcoholic after he was saved. He explains in the book how this could happen after realizing the saving grace of Jesus. The pressure of living up to the standard (due to the organized church establishment) is impossible for anyone, yet the people around him demanded it, so he kept it secret which only made it worse.
I dunno, I hope you see my points, even though it's rambling, I'm on opiates due to ankle surgery and almost half aware at the moment...
Can you elaborate on your claim that Bush is pushing for Armageddon? And how one man in the Evangelical church screwing up voids the sincerity of all other Christians?
Sweet Jesus, I'm tired of hearing this bullshit about Christians. Everyone screws up. The problem with a Christan that screws up, is that the idiot was probably trying to save face the whole time so as not to alienate his church.
There are major issues with modern churches, one of them is the fact that when one of the members has a problem, they feel they can't come forward and tell their church about it. That's a church problem, not a political problem.
There are hypocrites everywhere. I believe he knew he was wrong in his heart but like I said before we are humans and we have issues, and as a Christian, I don't always practice what I preach, does that mean what I preach is wrong?
We'll see... I'm voting it down today when I head to the polls. I think Talent is gonna pull through on this one too.
If you read the actual Amendment 2 document, you can see that it says that cloning will not be allowed, but then states that no matter what the researcher needs to do, we'll have to let him do it (and fund it)... That includes cloning, and is not considered under the previous terms that apply to the previous section of the article that state cloning will not be allowed....
I know that's very confusing, and THAT is why we are voting it down. We need a clearer Amendment in order to vote for this, and I also agree with previous posters that the use of adult stem cells would be sufficient, so why even mess within the realm of cloning due to the ethical problems?
UAL Guy 1: "Oh NO! It's the United Atheist Alliance!"
UAL Guy 2: "Oh SCIENCE, help us!"
UAA Guy 1: "Science DAMN YOU, United Atheist League"
Cartman: "Who are they?"
UAL 1: "The Alliance Athiests, we're at war with them!"
I bought my TV to watch Sports in HD with the whole family, which for the most part is broadcast for FREE over the air.
I waited until i could get a very large screen for what I believed was a reasonable price... The argument started with the statement of how stupid you would have to be to buy a BluRay player for 1000 dollars now instead of waiting (possibly a year) when prices come down.
Now, my TV was purchased at basically the same price I would have paid for a Standard Definition TV of equal size when HDTV's first came out, so, I won that round, and I intend to win the next.
BUT I can make a very cogent and strong inductive argument that it will in FACT most likely happen.
VCR's were very expensive at first, roughly 1 year later, they weren't.
DVD Player's were very expensive at first, roughly 1 year later, they weren't.
Blu-Ray players are very expensive now, in roughly 1 year they probably won't be so expensive
Your 'logic' misses the point...
CD's and DVD's aren't hyped and aren't new. The market determined the cost for them down to what it is now.
There has been no real market for the Blu-Ray and it's very artificial price. I have no idea about your background at all, but were you alive when DVD Players had just come out? Their prices were as artificial as the Blu-Ray players are now.
I own an HDTV and I agree that Blu-Ray will probably die a Betamax death. DVD's look fine on my HDTV. I can afford all the rest of the stuff you are talking about, but I'm smart, that's the difference. I can afford it! I'm on Slashdot too! And I'm smart!
It's true... My 42 Sony LCD even has a "game" setting which smooths it out for you. Gamecube games looked amazing, and regular TV looks fine too. Most of the people complaining prob don't even have an HDTV.
You are almost right, though, most major label contracts bill the artists for CD manufacturing and for promotion. You can also be gauranteed that they will bill you for the $50,000+ recording session(s) and then take the masters and put them in their vault.
I used to be signed. Most artists didn't get 30 cents a song before this deal, they got 30 cents a record and still had to pay expenses. Major artists do, however, make bank on merchandising and touring to make all that up in the end.
Popular music has and always will be manufactured from the get go. The artists are merely puppets. Stay independent, and you will make what you are worth. Unfortunately, you won't get rich without a push into the mainstream.
I didn't say that a cooperative society will not hold individuals accountable, because that's exactly what it does. But I don't need you or anyone else holding me accountable for anything. I want my actions to directly affect me. I sincerely don't care if you ever own a house or a car or amass any significant wealth. Looking out for number 1 is a pretty good philosophy. Don't kid yourself that cooperation can be successful where no one wins. People end up cooperating to make sure that they win. If a group of people are required to win, then cooperation is necessary. Otherwise, you are living in fantasy land.
Corporations do internally cooperate for competitions sake! I'm in competition with my boss, someday I want to take over his job. But in doing so, I streamline the company and make improvements while advancing. It's a well oiled machine.
Cooperative societies reward cooperation and punish competition, ensuring more people run the cooperation strategy, while competative societies do just the opposite.
Read: Communism rewards cooperation and punishes competition, thus, no-one advances past the level that society has chosen for them, while Capitalism rewards competition and is okay with cooperation if it is for competition's sake, ensuring that individuals are held accountable for their actions.
I'm just saying that I would trust private enterprise over any government. And that goes for whomever is in office at the time. Smaller gov't is better gov't in my opinion.
Why did I go and get a Sony HDTV when it was new and shiny? Now I dont' have the wonderful HDMI port to supply DRM information through the data stream, and I won't be able to hook it up to Vista now too. What is it going to mean for the many of us who got HDTV's early without regard to the future implementation of DRM and PVR's running Windows Vista?
"New York senator Charles Schumer said: 'This is one instance where intelligence was on top of its game and discovered the plot when it was just in the talking phase.'"
Slashdot Mirror
That's the thing, fame and fortune is fleeting. Do you really think people are happy on "Where Are They Now"? No! They are washed up or narcissistic and even then their music was usually piss poor to begin with, but had just the right formula to appeal to the mass of drones that will buy/listen to it.
I'm not saying nonconformist music is the way to go, but do you really thing the RIAA really cares if I download NOFX, Pedro the Lion, or Minus the Bear? They aren't famous, but they are more enjoyable, interesting, and better than your standard rehashed major label bullshit.
Mod me flamebait or troll or whatever, but the music industry is a bunch of fucks, I've been there, signed the contract, had the CD's in Best Buy, etc. and when it was their turn to pay royalties, reimbursements, they fucking folded and took that debt with them. Now I'm 30 grand in debt. I should have recorded my own album and sold it out the back of my car. i could have bought a 6 pack and still been ahead $2.63.
There are many cut scenes in FF XII, but honestly, it might be 1/100th of the game. The cut scenes are completely story related and although some are lengthy, it's not as bad as you all seem to make it. I would say they have conveyed more game than other RPG's with this installment. It's been probably the best gaming experience of my life thus far. 2nd being Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
"However, most people feel that the votes of such ignorant people should count."
Let me fix this for you....
"However, Democrats feel that the votes of such ignorant people should count, because their policies appeal to ignorant people."
"You, as a Christian, by definition are claiming that what you preach *has* to be followed and that excessive punishment results from not following the crux of what you preach."
Actually, the teachings of Jesus follow the "Love the sinner, hate the sin" mantra and excessive punishment does not follow doing wrong. In fact, according to Christian values, doing good can land you in hell just as easily. John 3:3 explains the only prerequisite to finding yourself in heaven after you die on Earth.
So, no I don't hate homosexuals, however, homosexuality is a sin according to my beliefs. So is cursing in frustration, and there is no difference between the two. Sin is sin according to the bible. But no one deserves to be vilified for any of it, and that (as you alluded to) is the major breakdown of the church. What I stated before ties into that. The issue is that people in the church have some major sin eating at their lives, and the human response to that is to point elsewhere to make sure it is never uncovered. That only leads to more and more hate-mongering in the name of Jesus.
Too many religious figureheads lose their way due to the attention diverting from Jesus to them. If you have read the news stories about "Jesus Camp" that had a section on Ted H.'s church, they were taken aback at how much weight on Ted himself the church members had invested.
There is a good book by a man named Brennen Manning entitled "The Ragamuffin Gospel". He was an evangelist who became a severe alcoholic after he was saved. He explains in the book how this could happen after realizing the saving grace of Jesus. The pressure of living up to the standard (due to the organized church establishment) is impossible for anyone, yet the people around him demanded it, so he kept it secret which only made it worse.
I dunno, I hope you see my points, even though it's rambling, I'm on opiates due to ankle surgery and almost half aware at the moment...
Can you elaborate on your claim that Bush is pushing for Armageddon? And how one man in the Evangelical church screwing up voids the sincerity of all other Christians?
Sweet Jesus, I'm tired of hearing this bullshit about Christians. Everyone screws up. The problem with a Christan that screws up, is that the idiot was probably trying to save face the whole time so as not to alienate his church.
There are major issues with modern churches, one of them is the fact that when one of the members has a problem, they feel they can't come forward and tell their church about it. That's a church problem, not a political problem.
There are hypocrites everywhere. I believe he knew he was wrong in his heart but like I said before we are humans and we have issues, and as a Christian, I don't always practice what I preach, does that mean what I preach is wrong?
Fucking assholes.
We'll see... I'm voting it down today when I head to the polls. I think Talent is gonna pull through on this one too.
If you read the actual Amendment 2 document, you can see that it says that cloning will not be allowed, but then states that no matter what the researcher needs to do, we'll have to let him do it (and fund it)... That includes cloning, and is not considered under the previous terms that apply to the previous section of the article that state cloning will not be allowed....
I know that's very confusing, and THAT is why we are voting it down. We need a clearer Amendment in order to vote for this, and I also agree with previous posters that the use of adult stem cells would be sufficient, so why even mess within the realm of cloning due to the ethical problems?
UAL Guy 1: "Oh NO! It's the United Atheist Alliance!"
UAL Guy 2: "Oh SCIENCE, help us!"
UAA Guy 1: "Science DAMN YOU, United Atheist League"
Cartman: "Who are they?"
UAL 1: "The Alliance Athiests, we're at war with them!"
Wow, I'm sure you and your Kazakh buddies can grow up and deal with a spoof on their culture. It happens to the US everyday.
SBC happens to be thought very funny among many people. It's the interactions with all of his characters and the interviewee's that make him funny.
Look, here's the deal...
I bought my TV to watch Sports in HD with the whole family, which for the most part is broadcast for FREE over the air.
I waited until i could get a very large screen for what I believed was a reasonable price... The argument started with the statement of how stupid you would have to be to buy a BluRay player for 1000 dollars now instead of waiting (possibly a year) when prices come down.
Now, my TV was purchased at basically the same price I would have paid for a Standard Definition TV of equal size when HDTV's first came out, so, I won that round, and I intend to win the next.
You are correct, no one knows for sure...
BUT I can make a very cogent and strong inductive argument that it will in FACT most likely happen.
VCR's were very expensive at first, roughly 1 year later, they weren't.
DVD Player's were very expensive at first, roughly 1 year later, they weren't.
Blu-Ray players are very expensive now, in roughly 1 year they probably won't be so expensive
A then B C then B D Probably B
The conclusion probably follows the premises.
That's inductive Logic BIATCH!
1080i Broadcast. I can see the difference, BUT it's not worth 1000 dollars for the difference in DVD vs. Blu-Ray. DVD is FINE not the SAME.
Your 'logic' misses the point... CD's and DVD's aren't hyped and aren't new. The market determined the cost for them down to what it is now. There has been no real market for the Blu-Ray and it's very artificial price. I have no idea about your background at all, but were you alive when DVD Players had just come out? Their prices were as artificial as the Blu-Ray players are now.
I own an HDTV and I agree that Blu-Ray will probably die a Betamax death. DVD's look fine on my HDTV. I can afford all the rest of the stuff you are talking about, but I'm smart, that's the difference. I can afford it! I'm on Slashdot too! And I'm smart!
Yeah and I think ING Direct's is at 5% now too...
It's true... My 42 Sony LCD even has a "game" setting which smooths it out for you. Gamecube games looked amazing, and regular TV looks fine too. Most of the people complaining prob don't even have an HDTV.
I think your TV would be in worse shape though...
You are almost right, though, most major label contracts bill the artists for CD manufacturing and for promotion. You can also be gauranteed that they will bill you for the $50,000+ recording session(s) and then take the masters and put them in their vault.
I used to be signed. Most artists didn't get 30 cents a song before this deal, they got 30 cents a record and still had to pay expenses. Major artists do, however, make bank on merchandising and touring to make all that up in the end.
Popular music has and always will be manufactured from the get go. The artists are merely puppets. Stay independent, and you will make what you are worth. Unfortunately, you won't get rich without a push into the mainstream.
RTFR!
I didn't say that a cooperative society will not hold individuals accountable, because that's exactly what it does. But I don't need you or anyone else holding me accountable for anything. I want my actions to directly affect me. I sincerely don't care if you ever own a house or a car or amass any significant wealth. Looking out for number 1 is a pretty good philosophy. Don't kid yourself that cooperation can be successful where no one wins. People end up cooperating to make sure that they win. If a group of people are required to win, then cooperation is necessary. Otherwise, you are living in fantasy land.
Corporations do internally cooperate for competitions sake! I'm in competition with my boss, someday I want to take over his job. But in doing so, I streamline the company and make improvements while advancing. It's a well oiled machine.
Cooperative societies reward cooperation and punish competition, ensuring more people run the cooperation strategy, while competative societies do just the opposite.
Read: Communism rewards cooperation and punishes competition, thus, no-one advances past the level that society has chosen for them, while Capitalism rewards competition and is okay with cooperation if it is for competition's sake, ensuring that individuals are held accountable for their actions.
"Maybe it was either 'hunt space monsters' or 'stay at home and pop out some kids,'" muses Allison. "Obviously, she chose the less horrifying option."
Yeah, because since she's been fused with Chozo DNA, who knows what would actually pop out. Some half bird, half human thing...
I'm just saying that I would trust private enterprise over any government. And that goes for whomever is in office at the time. Smaller gov't is better gov't in my opinion.
I wouldn't want our government owning that stuff.
Why did I go and get a Sony HDTV when it was new and shiny? Now I dont' have the wonderful HDMI port to supply DRM information through the data stream, and I won't be able to hook it up to Vista now too. What is it going to mean for the many of us who got HDTV's early without regard to the future implementation of DRM and PVR's running Windows Vista?
Deer Hunter was less about hunting deer and more about POW's in Vietnam forced to play Russian Roulette and going nuts.
If there was a game like that, it would fuck me up for a loooonngnnnnggggg time just like the movie did. I couldn't get it out of my head.
"New York senator Charles Schumer said: 'This is one instance where intelligence was on top of its game and discovered the plot when it was just in the talking phase.'"
Why didn't he call this an invasion of privacy?